As of the end of 2002, nine states, the District of Columbia, and 140 municipalities and other local government agencies offered domestic partner benefits (including at least health insurance); 70 percent of those programs were open to both gay and straight couples.

Ultimately the viewers will decide the educational value of Playing It Straight, but for Brogdon, this idea of turning sexuality upside down is very appealing: "For people like Jackie who come from a small town, 0ris will be one of their first exposures to gay people, so I think it'll be good.

Then he wired them up to a clever little device called a penile plethysmograph, which measures sexual arousal, and tested their reaction to three types of erotic videos: straight, lesbian, and gay male.

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